open educational resources - session #1

Open Education

Building resources for the open community MSL4206

Vanessa Camilleri

What to expect?

• Format• Assignments• Weekly sessions• Tools• Reading and Commenting• Tagging • Sharing

Format

• Classroom-based• Online• Collaborative• (Myself as the mentor)

Assignments

• Project – 50%• PLN’s – your blog (35%)• Wiki – your artifact (15%)

• Reflective Paper – 50%

All the tasks are based on collaborative work – not necessarily with people who you have had face-to-face contact!

Tools

• Twitter• Blog (Wordpress/Blogger)• Hootsuite• Wiki

Reading & Commenting

Tagging and Sharing

• Tags will help you filter the crap

So what about Openness?

Trajectories of e-Learning

Taken from: http://e4innovation.com/?p=791

Technology?

Distributed networks

Personal Learning Networks

Community

Your tasks

• Start working on your blog [choose Wordpress or Blogger]

• Create a Twitter account • Post/Comment/Share using #msl4206 [this is our

hashtag]• Go to the relevant discussion posts in your MOODLE

VLE area and copy the URL of your blog, and your twitter name.

Thank you Email: vanessa.camilleri@um.edu.mt